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Winston Churchill
England
30 Nov 1874 // 24 Jan 1965
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On Geniality:
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information
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On Strength:
Too often the strong and silent man, is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent
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On Perfection:
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often
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On War:
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war
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On Public:
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion
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On Tax:
There is no such thing as a good tax
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On World:
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true
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On Truth:
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is
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On Victory:
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult
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On Greatness:
The price of greatness is responsibility
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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